one of my little sketchbooks open on the table, the left sheet with 5 quick sketches of portraits, some copied from album covers, some copied from an old Rijksmuseum book. The right hand page has a made up landscape with sunset and church on the horizon, testing out some new colour pencils
sketches
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Merry Christmas yer big bucket of weirdos
A detail from my A3 pen, pencil, charcoal, and pastel drawing on paper. A yellow council grit bin, dirty, old and knocked out of shape, sits in front of a stone wall with an old concrete post to the left and pavement in the foreground. Only the bin is in colour.
A full view of my A3 size pen, pencil, and charcoal black and white drawing on paper, before the pastel colours went in. It's a council grit bin on a pavement in front of a stone wall with knackered fence, hedges and brick wall in the background.
and with just three pastel colours, my drawing of a sad grit bin starts to come to life
#art #drawing
you too, all strength to you
👋 aw, lovely to hear from you. The Socials seem a total downer lately, but I persevere. How are you? How is your mum?
I can't begin to imagine what you must be feeling; what a gruelling time of life it can be. Keep the tiny positives in mind just for you, hopefully the little moments can carry you through it all
morning! how's your mum getting along?
all strength to you; it's so hard, I'm hoping for easier times for you
photo from picking up ours earlier. How's your mum today?
I'm so sorry. There's very few things more stressful and awful. Make sure to rest yourself if poss whenever you can
How is your mum today?
that's a really good tactic. I was v close yesterday to exactly that
another photo of 'Pylons at Newburn' drawing, a pen and paper artwork I'm nearly finished with. I've taken a picture at an angle looking bottom right to top left of a bit of the cloudy sky and pylons
The current stage I'm up to with my pen on paper drawing of 'Pylons at Newburn', a landscape view looking south west from the north bank of the river Tyne. Two bare trees on either side of the foreground, then the river, with three pylons looming beyond the opposite riverbank. Black pen on white 8 by 6 inch paper.
The stage at which I stare at this every day wondering if it's finished or not. #art #drawing
Oh no. I hope she's settled today
enjoyed that, lovely
shiny!
ta! was on our honeymoon too, so doubly nice memory
something colourful from your gallery
same. I add it whenever I can but often forget. Overall, it seems there's plenty of opinions, like most things, but best to add at least something, even if that then isn't someone else's view of how to do it
I bow gracefully to my appreciative audience
Photo from the dining room, out of the window, towards a dark, menacing sky. There are rain drops on the outside of the glass, which I spent at least 5 minutes trying to get my shitty phone camera to focus on, so at least have the decency to read this alt text and give us a like or something for crying out loud.
weather
HB KS 🎂🍰
My work in progress, a black and white pen drawing of a view across the river Tyne at Newburn. 2 bare trees in the foreground, the opposite bank, the scene fading the into the south. Haven't drawn the pylons yet; they'll be the stars of the show, maybe even with colour when I get that far into the drawing.
Work in progress. Pen on paper. A view across the Tyne at Newburn.
#art #drawing
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My two triptych pen drawings, the top one shown here is called Near Haugh Lane, a view of the back of a big old retail unit in Northumberland, England, split into three A6 panels as a nod to those old devotional triptychs in early christian art. There's wheelie bins (or dumpsters, if you like), the loading bay for the unit, overgrown trees and shrubs, and a sad looking car park for the garage in the background. The one below it, also of some town architecture in the north of England. On the left panel of this one, the boarded up and disused 1930s bus station. In the middle, the Edwardian gates to Sele Park, a formerly grand entrance that everyone walks past these days. On the right, the eastern end of an old ropery building constructed in about 1800, also boarded up, rotting and largely ignored. These two original pictures are for sale in my shop at www.schmattt.com
plenty of drawings in my shop now, original drawings and prints too. among them, my 2 triptychs, both framed and ready to hang. 'Near Haugh Lane' and 'Hexham Triptych' #art #ContemporaryArt #drawing
While I sort out my website (https://schmattt.wixsite.com/schmattt for buying art from me, you can message direct if you want anything or use my folksy shop here https://folksy.com/shops/schmattt
Original drawings and prints available
